The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-03-24
NEW SORT OF sUAeAU.

The Novel Enterprise Recently Started b1
an InEsnlous New York Bachelor.
Bachelors in New York may rent the
most delightful apartments, dine at tho
most approved restaurants and lead in
general a delightfully."- free and careless
existence. But there is one misery
which the luckiest of them can not cs-
cape, apparently.
Buttons will come off ones clothes,
even though it is an axiom that first
class tailors buttons will hang on for
ever. Shirts will fray and rip, socks
wear out and underclothes get torn or
ragged. in spite of all ones caution.
and the question Of timely stitch. how
to procure it with ease and certainty.
becomes as harassing to tidy man as
q mild but long-continued nightmare.
To send a coat or a pair of trousers to
the tailor for single button seems un-
dignified. Besides it costs about fifty
cents to get it there and back.
And to turn over torn piece
of iinderclothes or a sock with holes in
it to the mercics Of the laundry is mere
ly to invite its irreparable ruin. Some
laundresses, indeed, mend clothes they
wash, but after finding silk hose darned
up with cotton once or twice, or fine
shirt sewed up with coarse, dirty thread,
one is disposed to ask whether the REM
edy is not worse than the original dis.
ease. With some melancholy reflec-
tions like these running through his
head reporter, glancing down some
want columns in newspaper few
days ago, struck suddenly on the adj
vertisement Of Bureau of Mending.
Here was a problem of long standing
solved. As the advertisement went on
to say, people living in hotels, in bach
elors' apartments and in boarding
houses, having neither facilities for
mending nor she practical knowledge
necessary for it, were obliged to throw
away half their clothing before it was
really worn out. An organized Bureau
of Mending could and would do work
for just such people at prices reason-
able enough to make it worth their
while to have it done.
The Bureau of Mending, as the
reporter found out afterwards, was
planned by young man who had felt the
lack of Just such an establishment him.
self and saw in it taking business en-.
terprise. About month ago he hired
room on East Fourteenth street and
started sort of central Office there.
A modest little sign scarcely foot
long, is pinned beneath all the rest OF
the heavily weighted house directory,
and mounting two flights of stairs one
finds the room where the bulk of the
mending of. the city, the manager
hopes, will soon be done.
The bureau has been in actual oper
; alton less than a fortnight and no judg
ment can be made now of its success ol
! failure. AS soon as work in any guam
tity comes in, a number of sewing
machines will be put in and a half dozel
or more girls engaged to run them
No full list of prices can be given a.
vet, either. Socks, however, will b.
darned for five cents a pair. Buttons
sewed on for three cents apiece. Shirt
will be rebosomed for thirty-five cent
an unusually low price, one woult
| tnink-and new wristbands will be pu
on at five cents each. Rips and tear
will be mended, of course, at price
proportioned to the extent of damag'
done. All kinds of repairs to dresses
dressmaking, cutting and fitting will b
done for women. No regular tailo
work is promised, however. not evel
the cleaning and pressing of trousers
Any one who wishes to can send
postal card to the bureau and article
will be both sent for and returned fro
of messenger charges.
The new system seems to meet
long-felt want and its success, if it
we'll advertised, ought to prove certain
IN, y Tribune.